LAMB WITH CREAMY PEA SAUCE

When I’m preparing recipes to post I usually take out any comments made by the columnists who’ve originally published them, but this time I’ve left Jane O’Connor’s in.  They’re wise words and her suggestions for modernizing, in this case minted peas, but also mashed potatoes are worth reading.

VEGIE PIE IN THE ROUND

This 1991 recipe published in the Checkout column of the Herald Sun is a bit of a mixture of the old and the new.  Brown rice was only just starting to become popular around that time, but the old style curry powder, vegetables and sultanas mix is what curries looked like in most households then.  Old fashioned maybe, but still a good vegetarian pie.

WINTER FRUIT SALAD

This is a microwave dried fruit salad recipe published by Sunbeam Dried Fruits back in the ’90s I think.  Perhaps not quite so useful now that strawberries, blueberries, etc are available all year round, but nice to have to pour over ice cream or serve with cream or yoghurt as suggested.

SAUSAGE PIE

For years Mum made a savoury slice using sausage meat which she’d take on picnics, a recipe that I’ve made lots of times as well.  This sausage pie is a bit different though with the layers of sausage meat, tomato and onion topped with egg.  It’s sort of an adaption of an egg and bacon pie. I haven’t made it, but as it says it would be great hot or cold.